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LOS ANGELES: Showtime has ordered a new limited series, Purity, based on the Jonathan Franzen novel of the same name, with Daniel Craig signed to star.

MONACO: The first episode of Dick Wolf's drama series Chicago Med will open the 56th Monte-Carlo Television Festival on June 12.

LONDON: STUDIOCANAL and NPO have inked a deal to bring Harlan Coben's thriller The Five to Dutch public television.

LOS ANGELES: FX Networks has greenlit a first season of Legion, based on the X-Men comics character David Haller.

The trend-trackers at The WIT shed light on which new dramas coming to U.S. networks’ fall schedules are generating the most buzz. The reboot of the ’80s series MacGyver stirred up the most social-media buzz of all the new shows coming to CBS …

LOS ANGELES: Hulu has acquired the HBO Europe drama Umbre, which is being made available for AVOD streaming in the U.S.

COPENHAGEN: Principal photography is about to begin on DR's new drama series Rides Upon the Storm, which comes from Borgen creator Adam Price.

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights has signed a deal with DLT Entertainment for a U.K. adaptation of the Argentine drama Perfidia.

LONDON: ITV and Hulu are going straight to series with the drama Harlots, set against the backdrop of 18th century Georgian London.

LONDON: STUDIOCANAL has licensed Harlan Coben's original thriller series The Five to Israel's Yes DBS.